A late bloomer, Iris DeMent released her first album in 1992 at the age of 31, but quickly established herself as a respected songwriter in the Americana mode. Her music is a patchwork of country, folk, and gospel influences, sung in a breathtaking soprano twang that evokes mountain streams, county fairs, and midnight train whistles. Fans have embraced her as torch-bearer for a lineage that has been frustratingly compromised by the more commercial strains of contemporary country music. DeMent has won a Grammy for her work with John Prine, and in 2003 married fellow roots-music aficionado Greg Brown.

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• (1996)  The Way I Should
• (1994)  My Life
• (1993)  Infamous Angel

• Our Town
• Let the Mystery Be
• Wasteland of the Free
• The Way I Should
• These Hills

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• Steve Wariner
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• Greg Brown
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• roy777 on 2007-09-28 04:39:33.060:
  Iris DeMent is simply one of the most beautiful & one of a kind voices in music,her singing is breath taking & touches your heart & soul like no one else I know of in our generation except maybe Lucinda Williams.